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Roblox is ushering in the next generation of entertainment, allowing people to imagine, create, and play together in immersive, user-generated worlds. We’re the one and only fastest-growing entertainment platform that lets anyone teach themselves how to code, publish, and monetize any experience imaginable—across any device—reaching millions of players across the globe.
The impact that you can have at Roblox is powerful. We’re looking for someone who’s eager to take on a meaningful role in the success of Roblox on a massive scale. Someone who takes play seriously, but also isn’t afraid to have some fun either. Someone who’s ready to take Roblox—and their career—to the next level.
Overview of the Role
As the Russian Localization Specialist, you will help us deliver our products to users for the
Russian market. In this role, you will work with multiple teams on several types of projects to
offer our users a complete immersive localized experienced that will be culturally relevant.
You will have the opportunity to own the language quality from end to end – from early localization,
to localization QA, to developing glossaries and style guides for localization standards. As a
user-generated content platform, we also use a Text Filter to ensure that Roblox is a safe place
for all ages to create, socialize, and share. You will collaborate with our engineers to train our
Text Filter so that it is culturally relevant for our Russian speaking users.
You Are:
5+ years of localization experience in software/internet industry. This
means you have a great understanding of localization and internationalization issues as
well as familiarity with localization tools and processes
Education in Translation, Linguistics - a BA. or equivalent
Native fluency in Russian strong written and communication skills in both Russian
and English and a strong knowledge of Russian culture, pop culture and customs
LQA experience: Familiarity with bug reporting process and software
Demonstrated self-starter: You are quick learner, detail-oriented, and quality-focused
Adaptable: comfortable learning new technologies and change of process
Knowledgeable:
Understanding of gaming industry, gaming platforms and Social platforms trends in the US and Russia
You Will:
● Provide high quality Russian translations for our product, marketing, and others
● Create and manage the rules for the Russian Text Filter
● Write and maintain translation memories, glossaries, and style guides
● Work closely with product & engineering teams to provide Russian Linguistic and
Localization QA for our product
● Collaborate with external localization vendors to maintain and improve the language
quality
● Uncover, evaluate, and fix linguistic and localization issues
● Serve as a subject matter expert for Russian language and culture